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Events During October, 2014
-  Wednesday, October 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
-  Thursday, October 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The Zeeman Effect in Confined Superconductors: A new probe of absolute spin polarization on the atomic scale , Christian Ast, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
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- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Astrophysical neutrinos, PeV events at IceCube, and the Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Raj Gandhi, HRI, India and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Filaments in simulations of Molecular Cloud FOrmation, Gilberto Gomez, UNAM Mexico
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- The Zeeman Effect in Confined Superconductors: A new probe of absolute spin polarization on the atomic scale , Christian Ast, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
-  Friday, October 3rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- The nonexistence of the eternal black hole, Samir Mathur, Ohio State
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- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Black Hole Information Paradox, and its resolution in string theory, Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University
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- The nonexistence of the eternal black hole, Samir Mathur, Ohio State
-  Monday, October 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Chaotic coordinates for the Large Helical Device, Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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- Outreach event: movie show; 7:30 pm; Union South Marquee Theater
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- Chaotic coordinates for the Large Helical Device, Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
-  Tuesday, October 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Using distance correlation and SS-ANOVA to assess associations of familial relationships, lifestyle factors, diseases and mortality , Jing Kong, UW Department of Statistics
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- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Higgs, Flavor and Large At in Extended GMSB, Jared Evans
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- Using distance correlation and SS-ANOVA to assess associations of familial relationships, lifestyle factors, diseases and mortality , Jing Kong, UW Department of Statistics
-  Thursday, October 9th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Clusters of galaxies as tools for cosmology, Mel Ulmer, Northwestern
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- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- "Puzzles in the Structure of Disk Galaxies", Stephane Courteau, Queen's University
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- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics , Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Yavuz
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- Clusters of galaxies as tools for cosmology, Mel Ulmer, Northwestern
-  Friday, October 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrino Oscillations at Work, Jenny Thomas, University College London
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- Neutrino Oscillations at Work, Jenny Thomas, University College London
-  Monday, October 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Radiation Physics in HEDP (High Energy Density Plasma) Experiments, Typical Applications and Modeling Tools, Igor Golovkin, Prism Computational Sciences
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- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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- Radiation Physics in HEDP (High Energy Density Plasma) Experiments, Typical Applications and Modeling Tools, Igor Golovkin, Prism Computational Sciences
-  Tuesday, October 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Human Longevity: Where are we going and how are we getting there? , Alberto Palloni, UW Department of Sociology
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- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Detecting Boosted Dark Matter from the Sun with Large Volume Neutrino Detectors, Josh Berger
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- Human Longevity: Where are we going and how are we getting there? , Alberto Palloni, UW Department of Sociology
-  Wednesday, October 15th
- Department Meeting
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- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
-  Thursday, October 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Anyonics: Designing exotic circuitry with non-Abelian anyons, Kirill Shtengel, UC Riverside
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- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background AND Searching for Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way in the Dark Energy Survey, Keith Bechtol, University of Chicago
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- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Interstellar Medium in M31 - Small-Scale Processes in an Extragalactic Context , Karin Sandstrom, University of Arizona
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- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics , Coppersmith, Gilbert
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- Anyonics: Designing exotic circuitry with non-Abelian anyons, Kirill Shtengel, UC Riverside
-  Friday, October 17th
- Special Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- "The Structure of the Faintest Dwarf Galaxies", Ken Freeman, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum thermalization, many-body Anderson localization, and the entanglement frontier, David Huse, Princeton University
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- "The Structure of the Faintest Dwarf Galaxies", Ken Freeman, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
-  Saturday, October 18th
- Wisconsin Science Festival; 2:00 pm; Discovery Building (WID)
- The God Particle - Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Sau Lan Wu, UW -Madison
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- The God Particle - Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Sau Lan Wu, UW -Madison
-  Monday, October 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin, Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
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- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin, Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
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- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin, Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
-  Tuesday, October 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Complex multi-systems redesign: regional food for regional markets, Michelle Miller, UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
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- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting SUSY Particles in Compressed Spectra, Zhenyu Han
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- Complex multi-systems redesign: regional food for regional markets, Michelle Miller, UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
-  Wednesday, October 22nd
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm; B613 Sterling Hall
- Garage Physics going-forward, Carlsmith, UW-Madison
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- Garage Physics going-forward, Carlsmith, UW-Madison
-  Thursday, October 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- New Topological Excitations and Melting Transitions in Quantum Hall Effect, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University
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- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Future Computing, Carl Anderson, IBM Fellow
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- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:25 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- "Single white dwarfs as Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?", Professor Marina Orio, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
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- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics, McCammon, Timbie
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- New Topological Excitations and Melting Transitions in Quantum Hall Effect, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University
-  Friday, October 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics of the Crab Nebula, Serguei Komissarov , Leeds University
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- Physics of the Crab Nebula, Serguei Komissarov , Leeds University
-  Monday, October 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
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- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
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-  Tuesday, October 28th
- PUBLIC ASTRONOMY WHITFORD LECTURE; 12:00 pm; 145 BIRGE HALL
- Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah Ostriker, Columbia Universty
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- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- On reactive model-free stock trading in a complex financial market, Bob Barmish, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Galactic Center Gamma-ray Excess from a Dark Shower, Dean Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
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- Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah Ostriker, Columbia Universty
-  Wednesday, October 29th
- Department Meeting
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- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
-  Thursday, October 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6, Lu Li, University of Michigan
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- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Future of Age: How asteroseismology reveals fundamental properties of Stars like out Sun, David Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institution
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- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experiment and Theory, and Quantum Computing , Coppersmith, Eriksson, Himpsel, Joynt, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Saffman, Vavilov, Winokur
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- Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6, Lu Li, University of Michigan
-  Friday, October 31st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Evaluating the Thermal WIMP Paradigm in the Light of Anomalies in 2014, Kuver Sinha, Syracuse University
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- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The challenge of fault tolerant quantum computation, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University
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- Evaluating the Thermal WIMP Paradigm in the Light of Anomalies in 2014, Kuver Sinha, Syracuse University